Early in life I had to choose between arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

Right now, it's hard to imagine that it is raining anywhere in the world.

... the love which Kahu received from Koro Apirana was the sort that dropped off the edge of the table, like breadcrumbs after everybody else has had a big meal.

God’s strength will come to you when you faithfully read His Word.

I want to take time to understand life. I want to travel. I want to be a better person, a better Mom. I want to do something good with my life.

Women who don't control their own reproductive rights are not free.

Most search committees use me.

When there's change, there's opportunity.

Vampires are make-believe, like elves, gremlins, and eskimos.

I love teaching. I love working with kids... maybe some day I'll go back to the classroom. I'm not ready to say it'll never happen.

Catholics Come Home inspires each of us to share God’s love with others, in order to help change the world for the better, for eternity!